Sentence examples for purchasing control from inspiring English sources

BARCELONA — When Telefónica, the Spanish phone company, entered Latin America in 1992 by purchasing control of an operator in Chile, the company was criticized for exposing itself to a region prone to debt crises, political instability and corruption.

Hicks served as chief engineer and then as vice president in charge of engineering, before purchasing control of the company from her uncle in 1955.

Pope told me that George Soros had recently purchased control of all the voting machines in eighteen states.

During the last three years alone, after making bids, we have purchased outright or purchased control in XO Communications, for $500 million; Allegiance Telecom, for $670 million; Philip Services, for $170 million; the TransTexas Gas Corporation and Panaco Incc.

In 1897 Schiff attained considerable prestige in banking circles when he provided the financial backing that enabled railroad magnate Edward H. Harriman to purchase control of the bankrupt Union Pacific Railroad.

In 2007, Italian lawmakers resisted overtures from AT&T before agreeing to let Telefónica and its Italian partners purchase control of Telecom Italia.

In the late 1970s Renault of France purchased control of American Motors, but a decade later and hundreds of millions of dollars spent, the French were forced to regress.

Jack, however, secretly organized a syndicate that purchased control of the company.

We purchased control small interfering RNA (siRNA), RelA siRNA, and p53 siRNA from Cell Signaling Technology (Beverly, MA, USA).

The company, based in Santa Monica, Calif., has also purchased controlling interest in an Internet company, MediaTrip.com.

Comcast purchased controlling interests in E! Entertainment in 1997 and the Golf Channel in 2001.